Hey everyone! Well, we’ve made it safely to Costa Rica and
have had a great first week and a half of ministry. It’s been a great start to
outreach! Our first week of ministry was in a community called Tambor a little
ways out of San Jose where we worked with a church. The people of the church
were great!! Most of the people involved in the church and who helped run it
were all related and were one big family that just took us all in and were so
welcoming and loving. It was such a blessing to just be a part of them and come
along side of them in the work that they were doing. The pastor gave us a lot
of freedom in what we got to do and let us run their Tuesday night prayer
service, their Thursday night service, their youth service on Friday night, as
well as participating in their Sunday morning service. We led worship, did
dramas, and shared sermons and testimonies. It was so great being a part of the
body of Christ and being able to worship with them. We also did Bible
distribution, getting an opportunity to go into people’s home, pray for them
and share the love of Jesus with them. One thing that was great to see was how
the young adults of the church participated with us and jumped in at helping us
and helping serve the people around us and in their community. We also had the
opportunity to pray for and minister to some people in the park the town and
got to see a woman be able to walk and another woman to be able to have full
movement in her arm again! Yay God! God has even been blessing us with little
presents along the way of seeing a volcano and even a community theatre show of
Aladdin! There have definitely been some nice moments of relaxation in the
midst of the working! This week we are working with the San Jose YWAM base and
their different ministries. We’ve been able to also join them for their times
of prayer and worship in the mornings which have been very powerful. It’s
awesome to be a part of God’s work here on earth and for the opportunity to focus
on that so clearly during this time. If you all could continue to just be
praying for unity in our team, energy, good attitudes (no matter what we have
to do), wisdom, divine encounters, and, as always, soft and open hearts to the
Spirit’s leading, that would be great. God is working and moving and we are
excited to see all that He has in store for the upcoming weeks!! He is good and
faithful even when we are not!! Thank you, Jesus!
